St. Petersburg entrepreneurs are selling their businesses on Avito
In recent months, offers for the sale of ready-made businesses have increasingly begun to appear on the popular online classifieds platform.
After analyzing data from the Avito website, the publication’s journalists concluded that small and medium-sized businesses that did not survive the pandemic are being put up for sale.
According to the publication "City", the sectors most affected by the coronavirus and the restrictions introduced by the Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, were the catering, tourism, consumer services, entertainment and beauty industries.
Thus, a respectable-looking establishment, which opened only in October, is put up for sale. Class A restaurant is located in the center of St. Petersburg. Three coffee shops are also up for sale: on Nevsky Prospekt, Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street and Kondratievsky Prospekt.
Earlier, St. Petersburg restaurateur Alexander Zatuliverov announced the sale of his restaurant “MyZheNaTy”. The businessman believes that Smolny does not have an understanding of how to interact with business under conditions of restrictions. In a conversation with reporters, he criticized the system of QR codes and unreasonable restrictions that hit local businesses.
Having looked through the pages of the site, you can find advertisements for the sale of car services and car washes, tailoring and clothing repair shops. In one day, several advertisements for the sale of dental clinics, beauty salons and Spa salons appeared on the site.
As noted in the professional community, business was seriously hit by the non-working week from October 30 to November 7. Perhaps someone would find the strength to recover from the blow caused by this and previous lockdowns, but new restrictions are ahead. St. Petersburg is preparing to introduce QR codes. The new system will especially hit the barely recovered areas of catering and entertainment.
Some entrepreneurs who are selling their businesses in St. Petersburg are planning to move to other regions, primarily to Moscow. They explain this decision by the different approaches of the authorities to supporting local businesses.
“Measures to support businesses in Moscow, where there are subsidies for utilities, are categorically different from support measures in St. Petersburg. Therefore, the situation for hotels in St. Petersburg is very difficult,” noted the interview "Petersburg News" executive secretary of the intersectoral coordination council of hospitality and services Tamara Builova.
This is confirmed by government officials themselves. Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg admitted the presence of a “bureaucratic filter” on the air of the “Party Bureau” program on the “St. Petersburg” channel. According to them, almost 80% of businessmen in the Northern capital do not have access to Smolny support.
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